Bulletin for Friday, 30 Jun 2023
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Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (1)
Retool Blog (1)
Computer Things (1)
null program (1)
Ratfactor Feed (1)
Stay SaaSy (1)
Stratechery by Ben Thompson (1)
Weaveworks (1)
The Technium (1)
Eight to Late (1)
Julia Evans (1)
Sentry Blog RSS (1)
Replit Blog (2)
- Microsoft at NICE Conference: Resetting expectations and enabling diversity in the cybersecurity workforce
- Why endpoint management is key to securing an AI-powered future
Simon Willison's Weblog: Blogmarks (2)
The CircleCI Blog Feed - CircleCI (2)
- Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks
- U.K. Cyber Thug “PlugwalkJoe” Gets 5 Years in Prison
- How to Use SHAP Values to Optimize and Debug ML Models
- MLOps Landscape in 2023: Top Tools and Platforms
- Meta’s Evenstar is transitioning to OCP to accelerate open RAN adoption
- Meta developer tools: Working at scale
- Build a library app with Laravel 10 and MySQL
- How PlanetScale keeps your data safe
- Announcing Vitess 17
Timescale Blog (3)
- Savings Unlocked: Why We Switched to a Pay-For-What-You-Store Database Storage Model
- Create Timescale Services With the Timescale Terraform Provider
- Saving Devs’ Time and Compute Power With Retention Policies: The Story of Crypto Trading Platform Pintu
DTN (3)
- Is your terminal missing out on $4 million in profits?
- Four Essential Guideposts for Profitable Fuel Contracting
- Is the Sustainable Grain Market Worth It?
- Career stories: The power of an impactful mentor
- Declarative Data Pipelines with Hoptimator
- Cybersecurity Professionals: The Unsung Superheroes of the Digital World
Earthly Blog (4)
- A Developer’s Guide to Git LFS
- Navigating Directories Like a Pro with Bash pushd and popd
- A Practical Guide to the Linux Uniq Command
- How to Automate Common Tasks with Shell Scripts
Google AI Blog (4)
- Announcing the first Machine Unlearning Challenge
- On-device diffusion plugins for conditioned text-to-image generation
- Unifying image-caption and image-classification datasets with prefix conditioning
- Preference learning with automated feedback for cache eviction
- abacaj/mpt-30B-inference
- Weeknotes: symbex, LLM prompt templates, a bit of a break
- Status of Python Versions
- Quoting sametmax
- K8s vs serverless for distributed systems (Go Time #282)
- Don't make things worse! (Changelog Interviews #546)
- Automated cartography using AI (Practical AI #229)
- AI poisoned its own well, libraries to UnsuckJS, we need more Richard Stallman & ChatGPT package hallucination (Changelog News #50)
- There's a whole PEP about that (Changelog & Friends #5)
- Amazon launches Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2
- Amazon and UW announce new fellows, research awards
- Long-form-video understanding and synthesis
- Amazon and Max Planck Society announce sustainability awards
- The science behind the improved Fire TV voice search
The Full Feed - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (5)
- IPv6 Buzz 129: IPv6 Architecture And Subnetting With Daryll Swer
- Day Two Cloud 200: Coaching For Accidental (And On-Purpose) Managers
- Heavy Wireless 005: How To Build A Wi-Fi Community With Ferney Munoz
- HN687 Juniper CORA Coherent Optics Enabling IPoDWDM
- NB436: Cisco AI Silicon, DEM. HPE Greenlake AI LLM. FCC Talks Bandwidth Caps.
- How Bloomberg’s engineers built a culture of knowledge sharing
- Improving the developer experience in the energy sector
- The cofounder of Chef is cooking up a less painful DevOps (Ep. 584)
- The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements
- The Overflow #183: Dev Survey on AI: Hype or not?
- Throwing away the script on testing (Ep. 583)
- Design for the web without Figma
- Staying in the arena
- Wisdom is not what you know
- Back to America
- Rails World sold out less than 45 minutes
- We have left the cloud
Blog – Hackaday (6)
- Rubber Tracked Bicycle Is Horribly Inefficient
- Build A DIY Space Mouse For A More Efficient CAD Workflow
- Sci Fi UI Made Easy With Arwes
- VCF’s Swap Meet Experiment Helps Support Expansion
- Watch This Beautiful Japanese Factory Manufacturing Wood Planers
- Know Snow: Monitoring Snowpack with the SNOTEL Network
- Cloudflare Zaraz supports JSONata
- Lost in transit: debugging dropped packets from negative header lengths
- Recapping Speed Week 2023
- All the way up to 11: Serve Brotli from origin and Introducing Compression Rules
- How we scaled and protected Eurovision 2023 voting with Pages and Turnstile
- Making Cloudflare Pages the fastest way to serve your sites
- Speeding up APIs with Ricochet for API Gateway
- Introducing the Cloudflare Radar Internet Quality Page
- A step-by-step guide to transferring domains to Cloudflare
Towards Data Science - Medium (10)
- Tiny Audio Diffusion: Waveform Diffusion That Doesn’t Require Cloud Computing
- Running Python Wheel Tasks in Custom Docker Containers in Databricks
- Four Common Mistakes When A/B Testing and How to Solve Them
- Dawn of the Denoisers: Multi-Output ML Models for Tabular Data Imputation
- Harnessing Precipitation and Climatological Raster Data in South America
- Working with Hugging Face Datasets
- Unveiling the Precision@N and Recall@N in Recommender System
- GPT and Human Psychology
- The Skills That Help Data Scientists Grow
- Upholding Data Quality in Machine Learning Systems
- The Download: AI disinformation, and lab-grown meat
- Lab-grown meat just reached a major milestone. Here’s what comes next.
- The emergent industrial metaverse
- Universal data intelligence: The backbone for AI
- Open finance heralds a new era
- Humans may be more likely to believe disinformation generated by AI
- Empowering Asia’s citizens: The generative AI opportunity for government
- AI gains momentum in core financial services functions
- The Download: introducing the Accessibility issue
- Shein’s charm offensive is off to a rocky start
LogRocket Blog (12)
- What is a business model canvas? Overview with template
- A UX designer’s guide to inclusive design
- Guide to rotating text in CSS
- Understanding new vs. recurring revenue for better forecasting
- A guide to DORA metrics
- Building a shopping cart app with Vercel Stack
- Top 20 product management courses: Free, paid, online, and in-person
- 3 ways to implement a typing animation in React
- How to monetize new features and use cases
- Using color gradients in Figma
- 5 lessons from Bing’s product strategy in the battle against Google
- Building a Rust app with Perseus
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/think-fast-talk-smart-podcast
Why is a boat a “she?” Why give names like Alexa or Siri to inanimate pieces of software? According to assistant professor of organizational behavior Ashley Martin, ascribing gender to everyday objects helps us to connect with them more deeply. “Gender is this humanizing force that allows people to interact with non-human things as if they’re human,” says Martin , whose research focuses on gender equality, gender inclusion, and gender’s role within team and organizational dynamics. (BACK TO TOP)
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We built and trained a bot to scale access to internal knowledge using an LLM and Retool Workflows. This tutorial will walk you through how we got it done. (BACK TO TOP)
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne
Alloy is a formal specification language I use a lot. In Alloy, ≈all data is either an atom or a relation between atoms. sig DataSource {} sig Step { requires: set Step } Unlike most languages, Alloy has two notions of subtyping: a type (or “signature”) can be extend ed, which is exclusive, or they can be in , which are stackable . In this example, the source can be generic, a database, or a file, but not all three. Like “all X have at most two dependencies, all Y have at least three. (BACK TO TOP)
I came across a question: How does one efficiently solve Two Sum in C? There’s a naive quadratic time solution, but also an amortized linear time solution using a hash table. Without a built-in or standard library hash table, the latter sounds onerous. However, a mask-step-index table , a hash table construction suitable for many problems, requires only a few lines of code. In particular, the solution doesn’t find elements, but their indices. With nested loops, it’s obviously quadratic time..... (BACK TO TOP)
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com
The Leading Edge of 2023 Technology … and Beyond Today we’re launching Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica—both available immediately on desktop and cloud. It’s only been 196 days since we released Version 13.2, but there’s a lot that’s new, not least a whole subsystem around LLMs. Last Friday (June 23) we celebrated 35 […] (BACK TO TOP)
We’re excited to kick off a new post series where we answer reader questions. If you have questions where you want the Stay SaaSy POV, drop us a line here . Onto our first question: Salary Caps at a Growing Series A Startup I am at a Series A stage company where the first wave of hires are all on a salary cap (seed employees) and with the recent funding, new hires are coming in above the salary cap, creating disparity of pay for the same roles/ seniority. You can pay someone 1. (BACK TO TOP)
#528 – June 26, 2023 IKEA-Oriented Development Every codebase is a home. Repos carry scars, arguments, memories, secrets, decorations, and sometimes graffiti. Programmers are homeowners. They perform repairs, rearrange things, and embark on redesigns. Get $1 Off Your Next Domain Name Registration at Porkbun.com! (sponsor) Porkbun offers hundreds of domain extensions like .dev, .app, and . It’s all backed by incredible support 365 days a year plus thousands of five-star reviews on Trustpilot. (BACK TO TOP)
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I asked software engineers to recommend domain registrars and more than 250 people responded. The most popular are Cloudflare, Namecheap and Porkbun. Why do devs like them? (BACK TO TOP)
https://surfingcomplexity.blog
Existential Comics is an extremely nerdy webcomic about philosophers, written and drawn by Corey Mohler, a software engineer(!). My favorite Existential Comics strip is titled Is a Hotdog a Sandwich? A Definitive Study. The topic is… exactly what you would expect: At the risk of explaining a joke: the punchline is that we can conclude … Continue reading Active knowledge → (BACK TO TOP)
The FTC's Amazon complaint raises some fair points in isolation, but misses the bigger picture, both in terms of Amazon specifically and the Internet generally. (BACK TO TOP)
Kubernetes Security - An Overview When it comes to Kubernetes security, the devil is in the details. Its system, aimed at simplifying infrastructure management, is so complex and intricate that you can’t secure Kubernetes with basic security checks. Kubernetes security needs a deeper understanding of the ecosystem and strategies to secure it at different levels, like nodes, pods, and data. Red Hat reports that 94% of DevOps engineers faced at least one Kubernetes security issue in 2022. (BACK TO TOP)
Huge if true. https://t.co/uesriTEih6 — Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) June 20, 2023 (BACK TO TOP)
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As readers of these chronicles will know, the ebb in demand for the services of private detectives had forced Mr. Holmes to deploy his considerable intellectual powers in the service of large multinationals. Yet, despite many successes, he remained ambivalent about the change. As he once remarked to me, “the criminal mind is easier to […] (BACK TO TOP)
Years ago, I enjoyed working with Durable Functions on Azure. There were some aspects that I fell in love with, like how “close” I felt to pure DDD, how simple it was to scale, and how little boilerplate was required. I just had one “problem”[1], I wanted to use it in PHP. I’ve been a […] (BACK TO TOP)
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Messaging at Spotify At Spotify, we use messaging to communicate with our listeners all over the world. Our Messaging team powers and creates delightful foreground and background communications across the Spotify experience, experimenting with and tailoring the perfect journey for each user across our platform. Today we are able to send messages through WhatsApp, SMS, [...] The post Experimenting with Machine Learning to Target In-App Messaging appeared first on Spotify Engineering . (BACK TO TOP)
Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work ! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/integers-floats , or get an 13-pack of all my zines here . Here’s the cover: the table of contents Here’s the table of contents! Now let’s talk about some of the motivations for writing this zine! motivation 1: demystify binary I wrote this zine because I used to find binary data really impenetrable. float. I loved it so much that I made a clone called integer. (BACK TO TOP)
Software does not expire, but it “rots”. Its quality degrades over time. As you build your project and add features, you probably won’t… (BACK TO TOP)
Suppose that you want to reorder, arbitrarily, the bits in a 64-bit word. This question was raised on Twitter by @experquisite. Formally, you might want to provide, for each of the 64 bit position, an original bit position you want to copy. Hence, the following code would reverse the bit order in your 64-bit word: … Continue reading Dynamic bit shuffle using AVX-512 (BACK TO TOP)
Women in highly religious relationships report the highest levels of relationship quality. US politics is largely divided into two parties (Republicans and Democrats). People who are affiliated with the Republicans have many more kids. The Antartic ice shelves gained 661 gigaton of ice over the past decade. A low protein diet increases mortality among older … Continue reading Science and Technology links (June 25 2023) (BACK TO TOP)
Hey! I'm Nathan. It's been a short but exciting few months at Replit, and I wanted to share my experience with you all. THE JOURNEY BEGINS I started programming back in 2018. Since then, I’ve met fantastic people, learned new stuff, and made a lot of wacky projects. What I did not expect was a technical recruiter to reach out to me through Twitter. > Hey Nathan, ... I'm a technical recruiter at Replit. ... Would you be interested in learning more about the opportunity? I know. Not at Replit. (BACK TO TOP)
Finding that one comment, class, or function in your codebase is important. You might not always know where to look... which is why we created a brand new Code Search tool! From simple queries to regular expressions it has never been easier to get work done on Replit. Try it out now on Replit! But don't forget to come back to this post so we can bring you on our Journey to Code Search. HOW IT ALL STARTED At Replit we love building things. We also knew that there were some great projects.)0x338. (BACK TO TOP)
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Microsoft at NICE Conference: Resetting expectations and enabling diversity in the cybersecurity workforce
With the skills gap in cybersecurity professionals, Microsoft is helping attract new generations of diversified talent to the field, including leading discussions at the 2023 NICE Conference. The post Microsoft at NICE Conference: Resetting expectations and enabling diversity in the cybersecurity workforce appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
With the coming wave of AI, this is precisely the time for organizations to prepare for the future. To be properly ready for AI, Zero Trust principles take on new meaning and scope. The right endpoint management strategy can help provide the broadest signal possible and make your organization more secure and productive for years to come. The post Why endpoint management is key to securing an AI-powered future appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change. Curiously, though, we do seem to be able to edit objects and arrays that are created using “const”. In this tutorial, we're going to dig into the incredibly-important distinction between “assignment” and “mutation” in JavaScript. (BACK TO TOP)
When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed interactive tutorial, we'll pop the hood on the Flexbox algorithm and learn how to do remarkable things with it. ✨ (BACK TO TOP)
Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia's top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of Justice. Experts say Kislitsin's prosecution could soon put the Kazakhstan government in a sticky diplomatic position, as the Kremlin is already signaling that it intends to block his extradition to the United States. (BACK TO TOP)
Joseph James "PlugwalkJoe" O'Connor, a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison. That may seem like harsh punishment for a brief and very public cyber joy ride. (BACK TO TOP)
We are pleased to announce the general availability of network flow logs and log streaming . Network flow logs allow Tailscale customers to monitor the network activity in their tailnet. These logs can help detect threats, investigate security incidents, and maintain compliance standards outlined in security policies. Network flow logs record the metadata about your network traffic. Customers on our Premium and Enterprise plan can enable network flow logs. (BACK TO TOP)
👉We want to hear from you: How can we improve Tailscale ? We’d love to hear what you think about Tailscale, and filling out this Google form helps us build a better product for you! June News Before we get into what happened in June, let’s go back to the beginning of the month. We wrapped up May and kicked off June with some pretty big news - we had our first ever community conference, Tailscale Up. We’ve got a bunch of cool community contributions and new Tailscale features to share this month. (BACK TO TOP)
Picture this, you’ve dedicated countless hours to training and fine-tuning your model, meticulously analyzing mountains of data. Yet, you lack a clear understanding of the factors influencing its predictions and, as a result, find it hard to improve it further. If you have ever found yourself in such a situation, trying to make sense of… (BACK TO TOP)
As you delve into the landscape of MLOps in 2023, you will find a plethora of tools and platforms that have gained traction and are shaping the way models are developed, deployed, and monitored. To provide you with a comprehensive overview, this article explores the key players in the MLOps and FMOps (or LLMOps) ecosystems,… (BACK TO TOP)
Meta is transferring its IP for Evenstar, a program to accelerate the adoption of open RAN technologies, to the Open Compute Project (OCP). Meta will contribute Evenstar’s radio unit design to OCP, giving the telecom industry its first open, white box radio unit solution. The TIP Open RAN community will leverage the Evenstar radio unit [...] Read More... The post Meta’s Evenstar is transitioning to OCP to accelerate open RAN adoption appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
Every day, thousands of developers at Meta are working in repositories with millions of files. Those developers need tools that help them at every stage of the workflow while working at extreme scale. In this article we’ll go through a few of the tools in the development process. And, as an added bonus, those we [...] Read More... The post Meta developer tools: Working at scale appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how to build a Laravel application backed by a MySQL PlanetScale database. Read the full story (BACK TO TOP)
A detailed description of the multi-layered approach PlanetScale takes to ensure your data is safe. Read the full story (BACK TO TOP)
In this release of Vitess, several significant enhancements have been introduced to improve the compatibility, performance, and usability of the system. Read the full story (BACK TO TOP)
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Efficient, scalable, and flexible database storage? We're in! Learn about our new usage-based pricing model, and pay only for what you store. (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how to use the new Timescale Terraform provider to deploy Timescale services. (BACK TO TOP)
Saving Devs’ Time and Compute Power With Retention Policies: The Story of Crypto Trading Platform Pintu
Read how crypto trading platform Pintu accelerated their go-to-market motion and saved developers' time and compute power using retention policies and incrementally-updated materialized views. (BACK TO TOP)
Read our blog to learn about three critical roadblocks that could be keeping you from boosting your throughput — and how to fix them. The post Is your terminal missing out on $4 million in profits? appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Buying refined fuels in today's competitive downstream market is complex, but here are four simple tips to help boost your bottom line. The post Four Essential Guideposts for Profitable Fuel Contracting appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
With the sustainable agriculture market expected to hit $28 billion this year, grain producers and ag retailers have ample opportunities — but is it profitable? The post Is the Sustainable Grain Market Worth It? appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
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Initially a Chicago-based data analyst, Jelanah had her heart set on a more meaningful career in frontend (UI) engineering. She chronicles for us how a life-changing engineering mentor at LinkedIn unlocked her frontend technical skills, supported a relocation to Atlanta, and championed a promotion to software engineer. I started my career at Allstate in an […] (BACK TO TOP)
For the last several years, internal infrastructure at LinkedIn has been built around a self-service model, enabling developers to onboard themselves with minimal support. We have various user experiences that let application teams provision their own resources and infrastructure, generally by filling out forms or using command-line tools. For example, developers can provision Kafka topics, Espresso tables, Venice stores and more via Nuage, our internal cloud-like infra management platform. (BACK TO TOP)
In a world where superheroes captivate our imaginations, it's sometimes hard to recognize the real-life superheroes among us like intelligence analysts, forensic scientists, and cybersecurity professionals. Yes, cybersecurity professionals! Though we may not wear capes or possess extraordinary powers, our role, especially here at LinkedIn, is crucial in safeguarding our members, customers, and employees from the ever-present threat of cyberattacks. (BACK TO TOP)
We’re Earthly . We make building software simpler and, therefore, faster. This article explains how to use Git LFS. If you are doing things at the command line you might like Earthly . It’s a pretty great open-source build tool. Have you ever tried adding large files to your Git repository, like video or audio files, and found that it slows down any operations involving the repository? Fortunately, a solution is available in the form of Git Large File Storage (LFS). The dataset contains over 1. (BACK TO TOP)
We’re Earthly.dev . We make building software simpler and therefore faster using containerization. This article covers bash pushd and popd. If you want to know more about building in containers then check us out . Do you get lost in path navigation? Do you have more terminal windows open than browser tabs because you worry about not finding your way back to the previous working directory? If you answered yes, then it’s the perfect time to learn two more bash commands: pushd and popd . (BACK TO TOP)
We’re Earthly . We make building software simpler and therefore faster using containerization. This article is about using the uniq command for text processing. If you’re interested in a different approach to building and packaging software, then check us out . The uniq command is a useful tool in Linux that helps you find unique lines of text inside a file or from standard output. It filters out all repeated lines, leaving only the unique lines of text in an output...gnu.gnu. (BACK TO TOP)
We’re Earthly.dev . We make building software simpler and therefore faster using containerization. This article is about how to automate common tasks with shell scripts. If you’re interested in a different approach to building and packaging software then check us out . While performing various software development practices, it is common to repeat specific tasks. This repetition can lead to human error, which introduces the task to bugs and other security vulnerabilities.sh : vim backup./backup. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Fabian Pedregosa and Eleni Triantafillou, Research Scientists, Google Deep learning has recently driven tremendous progress in a wide array of applications, ranging from realistic image generation and impressive retrieval systems to language models that can hold human-like conversations . This can raise privacy concerns, as it implies that even if an individual's data is deleted from a database, it may still be possible to infer whether that individual's data was used to train a model. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Yang Zhao and Tingbo Hou, Software Engineers, Core ML In recent years, diffusion models have shown great success in text-to-image generation, achieving high image quality, improved inference performance, and expanding our creative inspiration. Nevertheless, it is still challenging to efficiently control the generation, especially with conditions that are difficult to describe with text. Text-to-image generation with control plugins running on-device.g.5). We use Stable Diffusion v1. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Kuniaki Saito, Student Researcher, Cloud AI Team, and Kihyuk Sohn, Research Scientist, Perception Team Pre-training visual language (VL) models on web-scale image-caption datasets has recently emerged as a powerful alternative to traditional pre-training on image classification data. However, images with fine-grained class descriptions can be rare, and the class distribution can be imbalanced since image-caption datasets do not go through manual curation.g., classification vs. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Ramki Gummadi, Software Engineer, Google and Kevin Chen, Software Engineer, YouTube Caching is a ubiquitous idea in computer science that significantly improves the performance of storage and retrieval systems by storing a subset of popular items closer to the client based on request patterns. While applying machine learning to cache policies has shown promising results in recent years (e.g. The eviction decisions rely on a filtering mechanism with two steps.g.g.g.g., LRU. (BACK TO TOP)
Listener Joe Davidson recently tweeted: “I’d really be interested in an episode debating Kubernetes vs serverless functions for distributed systems. As someone working a lot with serverless to create large scale systems, for me the complexity in Kubernetes doesn’t seem worth it, especially when onboarding new people. But I’d like to see it from the other perspectives. I could be missing something.” So we invited Joe on the show alongside Abdel Sghiouar and Srdjan Petrovic to discuss! (BACK TO TOP)
Taylor Troesh joins Jerod to discuss a bevy of software development topics: yak shaves, dependency selection, -10x engineers, IKEA-oriented development, his new content-addressable programming language & much more along the way. (BACK TO TOP)
Your feed might be dominated by LLMs these days, but there are some amazing things happening in computer vision that you shouldn’t ignore! In this episode, we bring you one of those amazing stories from Gabriel Ortiz, who is working with the government of Cantabria in Spain to automate cartography and apply AI to geospatial analysis. (BACK TO TOP)
AI poisoned its own well, libraries to UnsuckJS, we need more Richard Stallman & ChatGPT package hallucination (Changelog News #50)
Tracy Durnell thinks AI has already poisoned its own well, Adam Hill’s microsite catalogs everything you need to UnsuckJS, Lionel Dricot thinks we need more Richard Stallman, not less & the Vulcan team proves you can’t trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations. (BACK TO TOP)
Brett Cannon (our unofficial ambassador to the Python community) is here to help alleviate our pip install anxiety. Along the way, we ask him about Python 4, removing the GIL, what he thinks about Chris Lattner’s Mojo project, Rust in the Python world & way more (of course). (BACK TO TOP)
University teams are invited to compete to build multimodal conversational agents that assist customers in completing tasks requiring multiple steps. (BACK TO TOP)
Ongoing collaboration includes Amazon joining the UW Center for the Future of Cloud Infrastructure. (BACK TO TOP)
Four CVPR papers from Prime Video examine a broad set of topics related to efficient model training for understanding and synthesizing long-form cinematic content. (BACK TO TOP)
Two Max Planck Society researchers receive funding for projects to develop new ways to advance a more circular economy. (BACK TO TOP)
How phonetically blended results (PBR) help ensure customers find the content they were actually asking for. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast gets into IPv6 architecture and subnetting including how geography fits into IPv6 subnetting, minimum allocation sizes from the RIR to end-users, whether current RIR policies will provide sufficient address space for a future-proof IPv6 architecture, and more. Our guest is Daryll Swer. The post IPv6 Buzz 129: IPv6 Architecture And Subnetting With Daryll Swer appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Going from a tech role to manager is more than just a new gig---it's a full-blown career change. On today's Day Two Cloud we talk with management coach Steve Dwire about a manager's primary responsibilities, what new managers usually get wrong, management education vs. experience, and how to get better at the job. This episode goes places we didn't expect, so come along for the ride. The post Day Two Cloud 200: Coaching For Accidental (And On-Purpose) Managers appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Have you ever wanted to build a community of professionals in your field, but didn't know where to start? In this episode of the Heavy Wireless podcast, Keith Parsons interviews Ferney Munoz, founder of the Tes@s en Wi-Fi community in Latin America, to learn how he built a successful community of Wi-Fi professionals. The post Heavy Wireless 005: How To Build A Wi-Fi Community With Ferney Munoz appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Its about reducing the cost and complexity of DWDM coherent optical networks. Connecting the DWDM network directly to your router removes the DWDM edge equipment which simplifies operation, reduce cost,space & power while improving provisioning time. How is Juniper entering this market and what do you need to know ? The post HN687 Juniper CORA Coherent Optics Enabling IPoDWDM appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Cisco announces AI Networking versions of SIlicon One ASICs and buys another DEM business. HPE Greenlake adds AI LLM. FTC talks bandwidth caps. Google accusing Microsoft of monopolistic behaviour. We laughed. The post NB436: Cisco AI Silicon, DEM. HPE Greenlake AI LLM. FCC Talks Bandwidth Caps. appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Thousands of the company’s engineers, data scientists, designers, and developers have asked and answered questions about how things work inside their organization. The post How Bloomberg’s engineers built a culture of knowledge sharing appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
And how software underlies the second-largest electric vehicle charging network. The post Improving the developer experience in the energy sector appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Chef cofounder Adam Jacob joins the home team to discuss the problems with the current state of cloud infrastructure, what engineers need but aren’t getting, and why he’s focused on creating a new and improved approach to infrastructure automation. The post The cofounder of Chef is cooking up a less painful DevOps (Ep. 584) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Why replacing programmers with AI won’t be so easy. The post The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
The birth of Agile, taking notes in an interview, and CSS nesting The post The Overflow #183: Dev Survey on AI: Hype or not? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Syed Hamid, founder and CEO of no-code test automation platform Sofy, joins Ben and Ryan to talk about scriptless automation, why his platform targets mobile app developers, and what he learned in nearly two decades at Microsoft. The post Throwing away the script on testing (Ep. 583) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at 37signals, and I'm sure most every other software shop has too. Adobe didn't pay $20 billion for nothing. But we don't do the bulk of our design work with or in Figma when developing Basecamp or HEY for the web. That's all done directly in HTML and CSS, as it should be. Because no matter how good Figma is, it's an intermediary abstraction, like Photoshop before it. Creativity thrives on constraints. (BACK TO TOP)
One of the things that can seem difficult to understand for people who merely tolerate having a job is why anyone would continue working if they didn't have to. You often see a version of this incredulity when the peanut gallery weighs in on the choices of billionaires. Why do these Very Rich People continue to do things – especially things I disagree with! – when they have enough money to live forever after on a beach sipping mojitos and taking pottery classes?! I WOULD NEVER. (BACK TO TOP)
The hallmark of great wisdom is not what you know, but what you know and can put to use. The globe is full of learned idiots, unable or incapable of following the wisdom they have accumulated. There's no prize for a closet full of axioms or insights, if you leave it all in there, and venture philosophically naked into the world. Ironically, this was a lesson I had to learn late in life myself. I used to find it silly when people would read the same book twice. This is why I love the Stoics. (BACK TO TOP)
After spending much of the past three years in Denmark, our family is returning to America full time this summer. The original reasons for temporarily emigrating – the prolonged school lockdowns and other pandemic madness – have long since evaporated, and we've had a solid chance to taste all that Copenhagen has to offer. And that's a lot. This is a wonderful country and a wonderful capital. But life isn't just a set of rational arguments for or against. How could it not. (BACK TO TOP)
There hasn't been a major, dedicated Rails conference in Europe since 2008, so perhaps it's no surprise that there was pent-up demand. But I was still shocked to see the forthcoming Rails World visit to Amsterdam sell out in less than 45 minutes yesterday! What an awesome reception to the first major project undertaken by our new Rails Foundation . Same too for our contributing members, like AppSignal , Cedarcode and Planet Argon . Especially because this feels like just the beginning. (BACK TO TOP)
Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take us years to get out as well. But all that work to containerize our applications and prepare them for the cloud actually turned out to make it relatively easy to exit. And now, after six months of effort, it's done. We're out. The last application was brought home to our own hardware on Wednesday. But the big move was HEY . This is an application that was born in the cloud. Look at it this way. (BACK TO TOP)
Wheeled bikes are efficient machines, and most cycling speed and distance records are held by them. However, [The Q] has a taste for weirder creations that amuse perhaps more than …read more (BACK TO TOP)
When you find yourself doing a lot of work in 3D modelling, you occasionally wish for something more capable than the humble two-dimensional mouse. A space mouse is a great …read more (BACK TO TOP)
Many of us grew up watching Star Trek, marvelling at the beautiful colorful interfaces on the computers that ran the Starship Enterprise. Today’s computer interfaces have certainly grown fancier since …read more (BACK TO TOP)
There was a time when those looking for tech bargains had to either try their luck at the local flea market, or make the pilgrimage out to a dedicated swap …read more (BACK TO TOP)
If you’re a woodworker, you know the value of a good planer. A stout model will last a lifetime if properly cared for. [Process X] has now taken us behind …read more (BACK TO TOP)
With summer just underway here in North America, it may seem like a strange time to talk about snow. But when you live in North Idaho, winter is never very …read more (BACK TO TOP)
Discover the seamless integration of Cloudflare Zaraz and JSONata, enabling precise data customization for enhanced workflows. Effortlessly optimize data transmission to providers and APIs with ease. Unlock the power of fine-tuned data today (BACK TO TOP)
In this post, we'll provide some insight into the process of investigating networking issues and how to begin debugging issues in the kernel using pwru and kprobe tracepoints (BACK TO TOP)
Recapping all the announcements made during Speed Week 2023 (BACK TO TOP)
Today, we're enhancing our support for Brotli compression, enabling end-to-end Brotli compression for web content. Compression plays a vital role in reducing bytes during transfers, ensuring quicker downloads and seamless browsing (BACK TO TOP)
More than 162 million fans tuned in to the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, the first year that non-participating countries could also vote. Cloudflare helped scale and protect the voting application based.io, built by once.net using our rapid DNS infrastructure, CDN, Cloudflare Pages and Turnstile (BACK TO TOP)
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Today we’re announcing Ricochet for API Gateway, the easiest way for Cloudflare customers to achieve faster API responses through automatic, intelligent API response caching (BACK TO TOP)
The new Internet Quality page on Cloudflare Radar provides both country and network (autonomous system) level insight into Internet connection performance (bandwidth) and quality (latency, jitter) over time based on benchmark test data as well as speed.cloudflare.com test results (BACK TO TOP)
Transferring your domains to a new registrar isn’t something you do every day, and getting any step of the process wrong could mean downtime and disruption. We’ve built a domain transfer checklist to help you quickly and safely transfer your domains to Cloudflare (BACK TO TOP)
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Generated with Stable Diffusion Exploring how to train models and generate sounds with audio waveform diffusion on a consumer laptop and GPU with less than 2GB VRAM Background Diffusion models are all the rage currently, especially since Stable Diffusion took the world by storm this past summer. Since then, countless variations and new diffusion models have been published in a wide variety of contexts. OpenAI wowed the world with the capabilities of Jukebox when it was released in 2020.).). (BACK TO TOP)
A step-by-step tutorial to build and run Python Wheel Tasks on custom Docker images in Databricks (feat. Poetry and Typer CLI) Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Enhance Your A/B Testing Skills: Addressing Four Key Errors for Better Results Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash Dealing with missing values in tabular data is a fundamental problem in data science. If the missing values cannot be ignored or omitted for whatever reason, then we can try to impute them, i.e., replace the missing values with some other values. There are a few simple (yet simplistic) approaches to imputation and a few advanced ones (more accurate but complex and potentially resource-intensive).g.g. from sklearn.datasets import make_regression from sklearn.e.g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
How to access MERGE precipitation and other climatological products from INPE for comprehensive weather insights using Google Colab Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how to access the datasets on Hugging Face Hub and how you can load them remotely using DuckDB and the Datasets library Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Optimizing Recommender: Deeper Interpretation of Precision and Recall Use Case Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Analogies with Human Thinking and Reasoning. Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Even if you’re in the early stages of your data science learning journey, you probably have a solid idea of the core skills you’ll need to get a foot in the door: some statistics, working knowledge of a programming language (or two), and a reasonable grasp of how to process, analyze, and visualize data, to name a few obvious ones. We’ve selected a handful of articles by data professionals who share actionable insights based on their own experiences and non-linear career paths. Let’s dive in. (BACK TO TOP)
A recommendation on the unseen cornerstone of Machine Learning Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Humans may be more likely to believe disinformation generated by AI The news: Disinformation generated by AI may be more convincing than disinformation written by humans, according to a new study. It found… (BACK TO TOP)
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. I briefly became a vegetarian around the age of 13. The story is a common one in my generation, I think: I saw a video of slaughterhouse conditions, cried my eyes out,… (BACK TO TOP)
The industrial metaverse has the potential to virtually and literally revolutionize the real world. By merging digital twins with their real-world counterparts, companies can optimize production and processes in a continuous feedback loop at previously unattainable speeds. This convergence of digital and real worlds will change the way we work and collaborate, enabling real-time interaction… (BACK TO TOP)
As organizations transition to data-driven business models, they must store, protect, and most importantly analyze their data. AI, automation, cloud, and as-a-service models all must frictionlessly interweave to achieve universal data intelligence and enable businesses to gain a competitive advantage from their data. About the speakers Bharti Patel, SVP, Head of Engineering, Hitachi Vantara Bharti Patel… (BACK TO TOP)
Open banking, which allows consumers to securely share their banking data with third-party providers (TPPs), continues to transform financial services. A new generation of financial technology (fintech) companies—peer-to-peer payment services, mobile banking apps, and trading platforms—offer consumers powerful tools to manage their money and extend their banking capabilities. According to the online data platform Statista,… (BACK TO TOP)
Disinformation generated by AI may be more convincing than disinformation written by humans, a new study suggests. The research found that people were 3% less likely to spot false tweets generated by AI than those written by humans. That credibility gap, while small, is concerning given that the problem of AI-generated disinformation seems poised to… (BACK TO TOP)
In a recent speech, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella evoked the lofty power of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate progress, prosperity, and standards of living. “This technology reaches everyone in the world,” he said. Generative AI takes an idea born in tech communities such as Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv—the ability of algorithmic engines to synthesize… (BACK TO TOP)
With 2.5 billion payment cards used in more than 200 countries and territories across the globe, Mastercard faces a gigantic fraud risk. Credit card fraud accounted for more than $32 billion in losses—or about 6.6 cents per $100 in transactions—in 2021, with more than one-third occurring the U.S., according to a December 2022 Nilson Report… (BACK TO TOP)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Accessibility issue When it comes to thinking about accessibility, so many of the dominant stories around technologies for disability, access, and mobility paint them as objects of empowerment or heroic, life-changing… (BACK TO TOP)
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Shein is launching a charm offensive. The once-obscure Chinese fast-fashion website has become increasingly mainstream. And to respond to accusations of terrible labor conditions, the company is now inviting US influencers… (BACK TO TOP)
The business model canvas can be invaluable for companies. It assists in laying out business models in a straightforward, user-friendly format. The post What is a business model canvas? Overview with template appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Whether you make your users feel truly included can make an enormous difference in your user engagement and business results. The post A UX designer’s guide to inclusive design appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Rotating text in CSS is useful when formatting languages comprised of vertical characters, or when adding text to graphics like maps and charts. The post Guide to rotating text in CSS appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Unsegmented, general revenue figures only tell part of the story. Distinguishing between different sources of revenue — namely, new and recurring revenue — is vital for deriving essential insights and fine-tuning your projections. The post Understanding new vs. recurring revenue for better forecasting appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
The DORA group outlines specific metrics to track and work towards in order to get the most out of your product. The post A guide to DORA metrics appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
In this tutorial, we will take a look at how to set up Vercel Postgres and Vercel KV and build a simple shopping cart app. The post Building a shopping cart app with Vercel Stack appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
There isn’t a one-size-fits-all course or program for product managers. Luckily, we dug through dozens of PM courses so you don’t have to. The post Top 20 product management courses: Free, paid, online, and in-person appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Learn to add a typing animation effect in React using React Hooks and functions or by leveraging dedicated animation libraries. The post 3 ways to implement a typing animation in React appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Discover the importance of monetization when introducing new features, when you should consider expanding your monetization strategy, and the difference between vertical and horizontal expansion. The post How to monetize new features and use cases appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Color gradients have numerous uses in design applications, from web and graphic design to user interface design. The post Using color gradients in Figma appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Product managers can extract valuable lessons from Bing's shift in product strategy and the (significantly, but decreasingly so) one-sided battle for search supremacy. The post 5 lessons from Bing’s product strategy in the battle against Google appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Build and deploy a Rust app with Perseus, a framework with built-in support for reactivity and server-side rendering. The post Building a Rust app with Perseus appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
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